Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

In this hysterical little smear piece (a slight revision of a piece that appeared a few months ago in the Daily Caller, which should know better), the brazen and unapologetic liar Ahmadi spokesman Kashif Chaudhry, a willing water-carrier for Muslim Brotherhood propaganda, manages to defame Donald Trump, Pamela Geller, Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and me, all in the space of a few paragraphs, while doing his best to obscure the grim reality of Islamic jihad terrorism.

The thrust of Chaudhruy’s argument here is that Trump, egged on by Geller, Harris, Hirsi Ali and me, is creating an atmosphere of hatred against Muslims in the U.S. that mirrors the hostility against Ahmadis that was whipped up during the presidency of Zia ul-Haq, and that ultimately broke out into open violence and persecution. “Will Trump,” Chaudhry asks melodramatically, “be the Zia ul-Haq of America?”

Here’s the answer: No.

Here are some reasons why:

Ahmadis are persecuted in Pakistan because the dominant Sunni ideology is authoritarian, supremacist and violent. Sunnis in Pakistan are behaving toward the Ahmadiyya in the same way that they behave toward Pakistan’s Christians. They are responding to the Ahmadis in the way the texts and teachings of their religion command them to act toward those who are considered heretics and apostates, just as they’re acting toward the Christians in the way that the texts and teachings of their religion command them to act toward the “People of the Book.” In the U.S., meanwhile, Trump is not the exponent of a violent, supremacist, authoritarian ideology, and there is no such ideology dominating the public discourse in this country.

No Ahmadis were committing acts of violence and terrorism against non-Ahmadis. Nor were they calling for such acts. In contrast, Sunnis in the U.S. have committed such acts recently, and have threatened more. Trump’s call for a temporary end to Muslim immigration was designed to limit that jihad violence, not victimize any innocent people.

The idea that Geller, Harris, Hirsi Ali and I “have craftily convinced a large faction of America that Islam is evil and that Muslims are to be feared and suspected” is risible on its face. If any non-Muslims in the U.S. are convinced that Islam is evil and that Muslims are to be feared and suspected, the people who are responsible are Muhammad Atta, Nidal Malik Hasan, Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik and others like them. What have Chaudhry and other Ahmadi Muslim spokesmen done to challenge the understanding of Islam that motivated them? Why, nothing.

Note also Chaudhry’s sinister use of language. Calling Pakistan under Zia “Trumpistan” is, of course, designed to suggest that an America with Trump as President would be just as authoritarian and violent. Note also his use of the smear term “far right” for Geller and me, when the only reason why we are called that is that we oppose jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and his charge that we (and Harris and Hirsi Ali) have “radicalized many American minds.” The use of the word “radicalized” is designed to suggest a moral equivalence between those who commit acts of jihad terror and those who oppose such acts. If Chaudhry were to get his wish and we were silenced entirely, the same jihad terror that victimizes his people in Pakistan would advance unopposed. That, apparently, is what he wants.

Kashif Chaudhry, whose parade has clearly been rained upon.

“Are We Headed For Another Trumpistan?,” by Kashif Chaudhry, Huffington Post, March 18, 2016:

…Ten years later, then president Zia ul-Haq passed an ordinance curtailing the religious freedom of Ahmadi Muslims. Thousands – including three of my uncles — were rounded up from across the country for identifying as Muslim, praying like Muslims or reading the Quran.

Since then, violence has only escalated. Talibani militants have killed hundreds of Ahmadi Muslims. Mobs have torched thousands of Ahmadi Mosques, homes, and businesses. And millions of Ahmadi Muslims remain disenfranchised with no representation in government. To escape this brutal persecution, I decided to move to the United States. And after finding a new home in this great country, I am suddenly – for the first time – experiencing a déjà vu.

Will Trump be the Zia ul-Haq of America?

For quite some time, anti-Muslim sentiment has been systematically nurtured in America. There has been a whole network of propagandists and fear-mongers that have – like Maududi — laid the foundation for this rise in anti-Muslim sentiment. They have craftily convinced a large faction of America that Islam is evil and that Muslims are to be feared and suspected. The fear mongering of the likes of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller on the far right and the likes of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Sam Harris of the new atheist movement has, over the years, radicalized many American minds.

And now, this bigoted narrative has sadly crept into mainstream politics. Politicians like Trump are capitalizing on the fear, and ushering in an epidemic of hate….

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Ten years later, then president Zia ul-Haq passed an ordinance curtailing the religious freedom of Ahmadi Muslims. Thousands – including three of my uncles — were rounded up from across the country for identifying as Muslim, praying like Muslims or reading the Quran.

Since then, violence has only escalated. Talibani militants have killed hundreds of Ahmadi Muslims.

And somehow, Trump supposedly wanting to be weary of people like Zia ul-Haq or the taliban – who persecuted other muslims deemed to be not muslim enough, i.e., persecuting others of behalf of their religion – amounts to being like Zia ul-Haq.

For quite some time, anti-Muslim sentiment has been systematically nurtured in America. There has been a whole network of propagandists and fear-mongers that have – like Maududi — laid the foundation for this rise in anti-Muslim sentiment. They have craftily convinced a large faction of America that Islam is evil and that Muslims are to be feared and suspected. The fear mongering of the likes of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller on the far right and the likes of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Sam Harris of the new atheist movement has, over the years, radicalized many American minds.

Or maybe, just maybe, Americans look to what muslims are doing worldwide and see shias and sunnis killing one another, and both killing non-muslims, and shouting “death to America”. Maybe Americans are making their assumptions based on how they see muslims acting, not based on third-party accounts. And heaven forbids Americans look into islamic scriptures and the preachings of respected islamic clerics, both classical and contemporaneous – they just might get the idea that the reason muslims are killing one another, killing non-muslims and shouting death to America is nothing but application of standard islamic orthodoxy.

Oh golly, Robert, you must be so ashamed. Ushering in an epidemic of hate; fear-mongering and anti-Muslim-sentiment-nurturing? How could you?

By the way, you must reveal your other website, where all that kind of stuff goes on. I’m surprised you have time for it, after all the work you do at jihadwatch defending us all from jihad terror and defending human rights.

“The fear mongering of the likes of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller on the far right and the likes of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Sam Harris..” He even forgot Bill Maher.

Since all the above mentioned persons have only spoken and written the truth from Islam’s own revered cannons. The effect was to remove the taqiyya blindfolds and allow us to see exactly where the tail should be pinned on Muhammad’s Night Donkey. We can do our own pinning.

Chaudhry should give up this nonsense. The “trail of fears” being blazed by Islam’s migrants to Europe and the doctrinally-based ISIS Jihad are screaming so loudly that the non-Islamic world is forced to wake up and look into Islam’s teachings. The more the West learns about Islamic fundamentals, from its own Quran and Hadiths, the less wecome it will be. Ahmed, few will hear, and less will believe your claim of a good Islam. Yes, there are good Muslims.

He clearly does not understand the American Constitution. If Trump is elected, and IF he attempted to become the demigod this man thinks he will, the people, including our elected officials, would eject his ass in a heartbeat. If Trump is elected, he will be obligated to follow the same Constitutional mandates as any other person. So his point is ridiculous.

Comparing dung beetles to this apologist for Islam is an insult to dung beetles – said beetles being humble unassuming creatures that bury dung in holes in the ground where it belongs, thus contributing to the wellbeing of whole ecosystems.

Chaudhry is a Hindu surname and his ancestors were Hindus of the Indus river system. Hindus and converted Muslims in India and Pakistan have the surname. (Even after the fact that there are very few, less than 1%, Hindus are now left in Pakistan.)

If he does not want to be persecuted for being a Muslim in a Trumpistan, he can simply shed his political ideology which was forced upon his ancestors at the threat of death. And return to the civilization and values of his ancestors.

If he is afraid he will be discriminated for his belief in his supremacist political ideology, he is welcome to readopt the values, civilization and heritage of his ancestors.

Moreover, Hindus with Choudhry surname still exist, testament to the fact that their ancestors fought and won against the threat of ‘Islam or death.’ So you can join the righteous side and find a community, since like the Hindus in Pakistan who have become extinct in Pakistan from 22% in 1941 to less than 1% now, you too have been victim of Islamic fanaticism.

So, when an act of terror is committed by a Muslim, we must not say it is a Muslim who commits that act but an Islamist, wait now, I think it is now an imperative or decree that in making reference to same we must now say “radical Islamist.”

And we must always be sure to correctly differentiate between an x- Muslim, a secular Muslim, a typical (?) Muslim, a devout Muslim, an Islamist Muslim, a fundamentalist Muslim, a radical Muslim, a Muslim who believes in both the greater and lesser jihad, and a jihadi Muslim, and whatever other descriptors there are out there.

And of course whenever anything bad, evil, undesirable or unacceptable, etc. (at least as Western eyes define same) is done in the name of Islam by those who identify as Muslims, we are told it is really being done by some type of [insert descriptor] Islamist (hah, I bet you thought I was going to say “Muslim”).

So the take away is this: it would be in our interest, even self-preservation, to always be wary of Islamist’s and Islamism. But not to worry about, or distinguish between (might be frowned upon), the unity of Muslims practising the diversity of Islam.

Oh yes, and to participate in thinking otherwise, than the way you are told to think, is unthinkable, and is demonstrating a phobia of *all* Muslims, and of Islam itself which may be even worse. And there could be consequences.

And we must remember, to always reassure both Muslims and others, that we are not saying that all Muslims are terrorists, or all Muslims want to ‘Shariaize’ or Islamize us. However, we are told, most terrorists (and ‘sharists’ and islamizers) are Muslims.

But take heart, and be not afraid, our governments, legal systems, law enforcement, educational institutions, journalists and media are doing all that is within their considerable power to. . . .

A few of the many atrocities committed by Sunnis against Ahmadis that Kashif Chaudhry doesn’t want you to hear of:

-2000 – On 30 October 2000, gunmen opened fire at an Ahmadiyya prayer meeting in the Pakistani province of Punjab, killing at least five worshippers and wounding another seven

-2005 – attack on Ahmadi mosque in Mandi Bahauddin – On 7 October 2005, masked gunmen with Kalashnikov rifles stormed a mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in a village called Mong in District Mandi Bahauddin, shooting dead eight people and wounding 14

-2008 – Two prominent members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were murdered on 8 and 9 September 2008 after a program by Aammir Liaquat Hussein provoking people to kill Ahmadis was aired on a prominent Pakistani television channel Geo TV a day earlier on 7 September

-2009 – During the year 2009, eleven Ahmadis were killed, while numerous others became victims of attempted killings, according to a report titled “Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan during the year 2009” published by Nazarat Umoor-e-Aama Sadr Anjuman Ahmadia Pakistan. The report claimed that the actions of “Ahmadi opponents” had been encouraged largely by the prejudiced attitude of the authorities, and alleged that the federal government had been in denial of the human rights and religious freedom of the Ahmadis, especially the governments of Punjab and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

-2010 – May – Lahore attacks – On 28 May 2010, two mosques in Lahore belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were attacked by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Punjab Wing (Punjabi Taliban). The attacks were carried out nearly simultaneously at Mosque Darul Al Zikr, Garhi Shahu and Mosque Bait Al Noor Lahore Model Town, 15 km apart. More than 90 people were killed and 108 were injured in the incident. One attacker was killed; another was captured by worshipers. Three days later militants attacked the Intensive Care Unit of Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital, where victims and one of the alleged attackers were under treatment. Twelve people, mostly police officers and hospital staff, were killed in the shootout. The assailants escaped.[38] The Pakistani government did nothing to prevent this; as of yet they have not set up protection for Ahamdis. As of May 28, 2013 the two attackers captured had not been prosecuted, but early in 2015 courts took up the case and proceeded with sentencing.

-2012 – Even the Dead are Persecuted – In Faisalabad, Quranic verses were removed from Ahmadi graves by the police

-2013 – January 7, 2013: Four Ahmadi employees of Black Arrow Printing Press accused of publishing allegedly blasphemous books, were arrested as they loaded a small truck with thousands of books and CDs. On February 13, an additional district and sessions judge on Tuesday rejected an application for after-arrest bail by four men accused of publishing allegedly blasphemous books about the Ahmadi faith.

-2014 – May 2014: Doctor Mehdi Ali Qamar (American-Canadian citizen), was gunned down while visiting Punjab, Pakistan to help train local doctors.

Kashif Chaudry is a Professional Useful Idiot. He is an idiot, because PM Benazir Butto change the constitution of Pakistan in order to persecute Ahmadis LEGALLY!

In 1974, constitutional changes were enacted to criminalise the religious practises of Ahmadis by preventing them from claiming they are Muslim or from “behaving” as Muslims. These changes primarily came about due to the pressure of the Saudi King at the time, King Faisal bin As-Saud, according to Dr Mubashar Hassan, Prime Minister Bhutto’s close confidant at the time. Pakistan’s parliament adopted a law that declares Ahmadis non-Muslims.

Sorry, Ordinance XX of 1984 enacted under Zia ul-Haq just spelled out the discrimination the Butto enacted in 1974.

Their whole existence as, creation of society is based upon the persecution of the ‘other.’ Whenever one faction comes to power or majority it persecutes another to its own detriment until it itself topples by over stretching itself ad infinitum.

And once again the heads of Europe’s traitorous jihad infiltrated governments will agree with Ahmadi and as an act of fervent capitulation, allow millions more sharia Law devotees to immigrate into the nations of Europe.

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